Chapter 53: Black Worm (1/2)
Chapter 53: Black Worm
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Chini regained consciousness. Seeing the vicious Marvin, a look of despair appeared on her face.
”No, I can’t say…”
”They will kill me.”
”That wasn’t my idea. They forced me to do something like that. Or else they would kill me, they would force those insects down my throat…” Chini said, weeping.
Marvin remained indifferent.
She might have her fair share of troubles, but her poisoning her own best friend with [Dark Sweet Poison] was an incontestable fact.
Marvin had never been one to show mercy. The only reason she was still alive was because he wanted to follow the lead.
Originally, Marvin only wanted to quickly cure Lyle’s plague and then recruit Gru to White River Valley.
But an unexpected piece of news made him change his plan.
A quest had quietly appeared in his quest menu.
[Plague Purge]: You found traces of dark sweet poison in River Shore City, and successfully helped a small girl get rid of it. Perhaps you should try to help more people; of course, you can choose to eradicate the source before the upcoming storm.
The quest reward was 3000 general exp and at least 1 point of regional myth.
Marvin’s experience requirements were extremely high. Even if he had many ways to level up quickly, many of those methods were extremely risky.
But clearing this quest seemed quite worthwhile.
‘The quest had two options. Being a healer would mean that I have to keep treating people infected by the dark sweet poison like I did for Lyle until I reach the fixed number of people. Then the mission would be completed.’
‘Or simply get rid of the plague envoy spreading the dark sweet poison in River Shore City. This was the quickest method. The only risk was the plague envoy’s rank.’
‘From Lyle condition, that plague envoy’s strength should be quite average, at most 2nd rank. But plague god’s followers have always been relatively weak. Even if I don’t get involved, River Shore City would also be able to deal with those brainless guys.’
Therefore, if he got information about the plague envoy’s location, Marvin wouldn’t mind taking care of it.
After all, he was already quite used to things like killing. Not to mention an evil follower, killing those wouldn’t be a psychological burden at all.
He was short on time so he would definitely not go with the first option.
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Marvin actually didn’t do anything bad to Lyle that night.
After tearing her clothes, Marvin used the kingfisher jade dagger to open up a small hole in her abdomen.
This hole was neither too big nor too small, roughly three centimeters.
The clueless Lyle naturally shouted very loudly because she was scared of Marvin’s grim action.
As for the later shouts, it was because she saw something terrible!
Because soon after Marvin opened up the small hole, something crawled out of her abdomen, a maggot. It actually looked like a black worm.
She nearly passed out from the scare!
There were actually so many horrifying worms crawling in her body!
But Marvin quickly caught those worms, throwing them into a jar.
Under the amethyst sprout smoke, more and more black worms were lured out before filling three jars.
After the last black worm was caught by Marvin, he told her that she was fine.
Marvin simply helped her sew her wound shut and then gave her a sip of red wine to help her sleep. The excessively frightened young girl fell fast asleep.
That’s right, the dark sweet poison plague was in fact a parasitic disease.
This kind of parasite was known as the black worm.
They first entered the body during a meal. Black worm eggs were put in the food and these worms started to grow inside her body, plundering her vitality.
Usually, most of the worms would gather around the neck, forming disgusting black spots.
Black worms were a kind of god-made lifeform, completely designed according to the preferences of the plague god. Once a person’s body had a certain amount of worms, all the black worms would explode!
This explosion would also make the host’s body burst open. Blood would splatter everywhere, creating a very frightening scene.
The most horrifying part was that black worm eggs would spread through the host’s blood. If the blood was splashed on someone else’s skin, they would also catch the same illness.
In this era of relatively underdeveloped medical science, this kind of plague was definitely very frightening.
But Marvin was an exception, as he knew the way to treat dark sweet poison.
The smoke from burning the amethyst sprout was extremely enticing to those worms.
They would crawl out of the body of the host, and were then caught by Marvin who was wearing gloves.
All the jars were half filled with vinegars.
The black worms were most afraid of vinegars. They would thoroughly die from being soaked in it for an hour.
And these liquids would turn into a nerve paralysis venom!
For Marvin, this was like killing two birds with one stone. He had always been lacking poison. He had always wanted to dip his curved daggers, straight daggers and other weapons in poison but couldn’t do anything about it.